De thi HSG TruongLop 11

SỞ GD và ĐT THANH HOÁ
Trường THPT Lương Đắc Bằng
------------***--------------

KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TRƯỜNG
LỚP 11-THPT
Năm học 2008-2009
Môn thi : Tiếng Anh ( Thời gian 150 phút-không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề thi gồm 04 trang
Question 1:
a- Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from those of the other words.
1.A-ransom B-ancient C-danger D-change
2.A-debt B-nib C-absorb D-absent
3.A-wicked B-hatred C-sacred D-looked
4.A-delicate B-concentrate C-private D-accurate
5.A-put B-putt C-pussy D-pulpit

b-Choose a word in each line that has different stress patternfrom the others.
1.A-campground B-include C-market D-common
2.A-athletics B-average C-bricklaying D-solitude
3.A-spectacular B-sophisticate C-entertainment D-activity
4.A-waterfall B-wilderness C-spectacle D-undertake
5-A-improve B-leisure C-guitar D-pursuit

Question 2: Use the correct form of each the word given in parentheses to fill inthe blank in each sentence.
1-Alison’s ………….(shy) made it hard for her to speak in public.
2-He had the ………..(annoy) habit of borrowing books and then forgetting to return them.
3-Remind me of my appointment.I’m ………………..(forget).
4-For one who has spent his life in town, a trip into the mountains could prove an………..(forget) experience.
5-He had been …………………(expect) delayed at the office and was now in a hurry to keep his …………….(appoint) with the dentist.
6-The old lady hid all her ……………….(save) under the floor.
7-Recently health foods have increased in…………….(popular).
8-The gas from the chemical factory was extremely………………(harm).
9-Unless something is done about unemployment, the ……..(look) for the future is not good.

Question 3:Fill each numbered blank of the following passage with a suitable word.
Many people believe that watching television has resulted in lower reading standards in
school._______(1), the link between television and printed books is not as simple as that.In
many ________(2), television actually encourages people to read : for example, when a
book is turned into a TV series, _______(3) sales often go up.
One study of this link examined six-year-old children who______(4) viewing a special series of 15-minute programmes at school.The series was designed to encourage love of books, as_______(5) as to develop the basic mechanical skills of reading.Each programme is an animated film of a children’s book.The story is read aloud_______(6) certain key phrases from the book appear on the screen, beneath the picture. Whenever a word is read , it is also highlighted on the TV screen.
One finding was _______(7) watching these programmes was very important to the children.If anything prevented them _______(8) seeing a programme, they were very disappointed. What’s more , they wanted to read the books_______(9) the different parts of the series were based on.
The programmes also gave the children______(10) confidence when looking at these books.As a result of ______(11) familiarity with the stories, they would sit in pairs and read the stories aloud to ________(12) other. On _______(13) occasion, the children showed great sympathy when discussing a character in a book because they themselves______(14) been moved when watching the character________(15)television.

Question 4: The following passage contains 11 errors. Find and correct them.
When man first learned how making a fire, he began to use fuel for the first time. The first fuel he used was probably wooden. As time passed,man eventually discovered that substances such as coal and oil will burn. Coal was not used very wide as a source of energy until the nineteenth century. With the coming of the industrial revolution, it was soon realized that production would double if coal was using instead of wood.Nowadays ,much of the huge factories and electricity generating stations would be impossible to function if there was no coal